

Not very intuitive, but it makes sense if you want to write in multiple languages in the same document. I filled a bug report with Apple, but apparently this is the "intended functionality". This is why when you change it in one place, clicking into a different block of text reverts back to the default language. Choose File > Advanced > Language & Region (from the File menu at the top of your screen). Note: You can’t change this setting for a shared document. After you create a document, you can change its language setting while the document is open. It took me a while to figure out that Pages can have multiple language types in a single document. Change a document’s language and formatting. To set the language document-wide, first do a Select All, and then change the language. Under Text > More: Language, you can set the language. To set the language for the currently selected text, bring up the Formatting palette. This contains many different options, such as General, Display, Proofing, Save, Language, and Advanced. A pop-up window named Word Options will come up. To access that, click File, and then Options in the drop-down. Settings and Preferences are in the Option menu of the Backstage view.

#Change language setting for word on mac how to#
I did find a way to set the language for the currently selected text, but no way to apply the change document-wide without doing a Select All, and no way to set the language to be another one permanently. How to use Settings and Preferences in Microsoft Word 2013. So you get the red squiggly lines everywhere. If you have your OS set in one language (like English), and want to write in another language (like French or Spanish), Pages refuses to change the language of the file to anything other than the language setting of the OS itself. But there's one bewildering setting that took me forever to figure out: multiple language support. Apple's new iApp Pages makes beautiful documents.
